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What’s worse than closed is that it doesn’t correlate your closed as duplicate bug, with the bug it is a duplicate of. If they correlated them so you could see the status of the “parent” bug, then it would be miles better. I might even start logging bugs again myself.

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You can ask for the status of the parent bug, I've gotten answers before.

For example, I filed a bug report for Continuity not supporting TouchID/FaceID, so that you could unlock macOS from your iDevice. It was closed as a duplicate, and when I asked for the parents' status, I was told it was it was closed as "Not to be Addressed".

The worst is Apple's closed bug tracker. You cannot see bugs reported by other users, and if yours gets closed as a duplicate, you cannot see the original report's progress or be notified when it's fixed. A colleague reported a number of Safari bugs that he was quickly locked out of as duplicates. He stopped bothering eventually. Held up our automated testing for weeks.

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